Dictionary of Welsh Biography

EDISBURY family Bedwal, Marchwiel, Pentre-clawdd, Erddig, king he was rounded up by Parliamentary forces at Bangor Iscoed on 16 February 1643, but released on exchange, and in 1646 he became steward of Chirkland under Sir Thomas Myddelton (1586 - 1666). This gave him influence with the victorious party, which made him a somewhat reluctant magistrate and commissioner of taxes and of the militia (1648) for his county; he also petitioned successfully (3
EDMUND-DAVIES, HERBERT EDMUND (1906 - 1992), lawyer and judge located just a few miles away from his hometown of Mountain Ash. His report was harshly critical of the National Coal Board. His most famous as well as his most controversial decision was made when he presided at the trial of those accused of the Great Train Robbery in 1964. The robbers were convicted and sentenced to terms of 20, 25 and 30 years imprisonment. These sentences were considered very harsh
EDMUNDS, MARY ANNE (1813 - 1858), teacher Born 25 April 1813 at Carmarthen, daughter of William and Mary Jones. She was educated at a boarding school and also benefited materially from the invaluable instruction she received at home, where she acquired an exceptional knowledge of the Scriptures, was an avid reader of edifying books, and was well versed in Welsh hymnology; she possessed natural gifts of an unusually high order. For twenty
EDNYFED FYCHAN, noble family of Gwynedd marks of royal favour in the following years, Tudur was one of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's leading advisers after 1256, succeeding his brother Goronwy as seneschal and remaining faithful to the prince until his death in 1278. His loyalty was emulated by his son HEILYN; he had been a hostage in the king's hands between 1246 and 1263 and he submitted finally to Edward I in 1282 (Littere Wallie, 3-4, 26, 50-2
EDWARDS family Stansty, physician to Charles I. As Fellow of Christ Church he refused to submit to the Parliamentary visitors in 1648 (10 May), but there is no record of his expulsion. JONATHAN EDWARDS (third son, born 1615) went to Jesus College, Oxford (matriculated 3 February 1633), graduated B.A. 1634 (9 June), became M.A. and Fellow 1637 (24 April), and D.D. (November 1642). By 1679 he was archdeacon of Londonerry. Their
EDWARDS, ALFRED GEORGE (1848 - 1937), first archbishop of Wales ) warden of Llandovery College, was ordained deacon in 1874 and priest in 1875; in 1885 he was preferred to the vicarage of S. Peter, Carmarthen, becoming at the same time private secretary to bishop William Basil Jones of S. Davids. In February 1889 he was nominated bishop of St Asaph, and was consecrated in Westminster Abbey on 25 March. On 1 June 1920 he was enthroned first archbishop of Wales at St
EDWARDS, ARTHUR TUDOR (1890 - 1946), surgeon Hon. Fellow of the American Society of Thoracic Surgeons. He was awarded hon. degrees by Grenoble and Oslo universities. He married Evelyn Ime Ida Chichester, daughter of Dr Theo Hoskin, London. After a period of ill-health, he died at St. Enodoc, Cornwall, 25 August 1946.
EDWARDS, CHARLES (1628 - after 1691), Puritan man of letters prepared to submit to the authority of Parliament. In October 1648 he was awarded a scholarship at Jesus College, whence he graduated B.A. in 1649. The following year he is found serving as an itinerant preacher under the Act for the Propagation of the Gospel in Wales, and it may be surmised that he continued in that work until 1652-3 when he was given the sinecure living of Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant. He
EDWARDS, GEORGE ROWLAND (1810 - 1894), soldier and enlightened landowner was a good landlord who believed that all of his workers should have a portion of land to cultivate. He was a strong supporter of Jesse Collings ' plan - 'three acres and a cow' - and he wrote extensively on this particular subject. He died on 3 March 1894 and was buried in the graveyard of Great Ness church.
EDWARDS, Sir IFAN ab OWEN (1895 - 1970), lecturer, founder of Urdd Gobaith Cymru Son of Sir O.M. Edwards and Ellen his wife and born 25 July 1895 in Tremaran, Llanuwchllyn, Merionethshire, though he was brought up in Oxford until the family returned to Llanuwchllyn in 1907. He went to Bala grammar school and University College of Wales, Aberystwyth (1912-15). After serving as a soldier in France (1915-18) he entered Lincoln College, Oxford (1918-20) and graduated in history
EDWARDS, MILES (1743 - 1808), Baptist minister gathered in his house, Wern, near Pontypool, and which, in 1779, settled at Upper Trosnant. He ministered there until his death on 25 September 1808, and he was buried in the chapel burial-ground. Miles Edwards was considered a good scholar, and an effective preacher in Welsh and English. A frequent itinerant, he periodically ministered to a congregation at Coleford. Although Jonathan Edwards was perhaps
EDWARDS, MORGAN (1722 - 1795), Baptist minister and historian Born at Pontypool 9 May 1722, and educated at Trosnant and at Bristol Baptist Academy. After being at Boston, Cork, and Rye, he was invited to Philadelphia, U.S.A., where he ministered from 1761 to 1771. Thereafter he was an occasional preacher and lecturer, except during the War of Independence, when he adhered to the Crown. He died at Pencader, Newcastle County, Delaware, 25 January 1795, and

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